The modern capitalist world entitles everyone to a smartphone, a flat-screen telly, a games console and a bottle of booze. You can't give people aspirations then deny them. That isn't how capitalism works. Make them buy the stuff then, preferably, put them into debt to pay for it. All I'd say is that it's a damn sight easier to demonise the guy on benefits with the unjustifiable flat-screen telly than it is to demonise the non-doms and the oligarchs and the offshore Barclay billionaires. That's capitalism too.
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